The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 211 - Get Woke, Go Broke

00:00:00.220 Hollywood writes America out of the moon landing, Nike turns Colin Kaepernick into real-life Al Bundy,

00:00:07.020 and lefties learn the most important business lesson of the Trump era, get woke, go broke.

00:00:12.520 Then, Steve Bannon is disinvited from the New Yorker conference.

00:00:15.780 Oh no, Democrats scrape the bottom of the barrel for 2020, politicians politicize John McCain's funeral,

00:00:21.660 and I explain Sarah Silverman's own joke to her.

00:00:24.960 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:30.000 You've probably noticed something really horrible.

00:00:36.960 I was so excited to get here today.

00:00:38.620 There is so much to talk about that I forgot my Rachel Maddow glasses.

00:00:43.260 I can't find them. I don't know where they are.

00:00:45.440 This obviously is the source of my power.

00:00:47.680 I can now no longer read Donald Trump's tax returns and find out that he really paid taxes.

00:00:53.320 I can't spread fake news quite as easily as I once did.

00:00:56.740 So I don't know. We're going to be flying by the seat of our pants today.

00:00:58.820 But hopefully they turn up and I get all of my powers back.

00:01:01.660 Before we get to a lot of news, because we've got a lot to talk about,

00:01:04.980 and the left is learning a wonderful lesson, get woke, go broke, filling up my Tumblr by the second.

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00:02:45.420 Okay, let's get into this today.

00:02:46.920 Now that we've got the cell phone squared away, we're mourning the loss of my Rachel Maddow glasses.

00:02:52.820 Let's mourn the loss of leftist companies' money because they are learning this hard lesson.

00:02:59.420 Repeat after me.

00:03:00.800 Get woke.

00:03:02.100 Go broke.

00:03:03.320 The first guy that's learning about this is the CEO of Nike right now.

00:03:10.220 Because you might have heard Ryan Gosling angered half of the country over the weekend by writing the American flag out of the moon landing and defending that decision.

00:03:18.540 So I think he thought that he had the best way to offend Americans over the weekend.

00:03:24.160 And then Nike turned to him and said, Ryan, hold my Gatorade.

00:03:26.960 Because they decided to make the new face of Nike, the new image that they are going to put on all of their advertising.

00:03:34.680 Colin Kaepernick, the guy who disrespects and protests the American flag, the symbol of the country itself. 0.98

00:03:43.080 The quote that they're using on this stupid image of Kaepernick's head says, believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything. 0.99

00:03:53.200 Here's how people are reacting. 0.99

00:03:54.360 I'm going to enjoy.

00:03:58.820 Hell, I'm going to buy some Adidas.

00:04:03.100 Hmm.

00:04:04.340 You know how many other sneakers there are to buy?

00:04:07.240 To choose from?

00:04:08.960 You're going to go ahead.

00:04:10.500 You're going to go ahead and say, hey.

00:04:16.240 Buy them our shoes.

00:04:17.640 We stand with people who kneel for the national anthem.

00:04:21.560 Well, sorry Nike.

00:04:23.380 I've been buying them for the past 20 plus years.

00:04:26.740 Not anymore.

00:04:29.220 For those of you who are just listening, I think you got the gist of it.

00:04:31.980 You could probably hear the little sweatshop produced shoes crackling in the background.

00:04:36.680 But this guy's burning his set of sneakers.

00:04:39.440 And this is really hard for me.

00:04:41.720 Because I don't know that I've ever even considered wearing running shoes out in public.

00:04:46.600 I'm not a big exercise guy, as you might have discovered.

00:04:50.260 But let me tell you something.

00:04:51.780 If Nike produced penny loafers, they would have lost one customer today, baby.

00:04:56.400 They would be out of it.

00:04:57.640 They don't make that, unfortunately.

00:04:59.540 But I still now, anytime I do buy athletic gear, not using Nike.

00:05:02.660 I think this is true of half the country. 0.95

00:05:04.220 The statement is obviously ridiculous. 0.82

00:05:07.040 Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything. 0.69

00:05:11.320 Conservatives get this wrong sometimes because we, too, focus on the form and not just the content.

00:05:19.200 So you can believe in something.

00:05:20.840 I mean, Mao believed in something.

00:05:23.340 Stalin believed in something.

00:05:24.460 Hitler believed in something. 0.92

00:05:25.760 All of the worst ideologues in history have believed in something.

00:05:29.040 They've just believed in bad things.

00:05:30.740 David Duke believes in something, right?

00:05:32.760 Louis Farrakhan believes in something.

00:05:34.540 So you believe in something.

00:05:35.440 But the question is, what are you believing in?

00:05:37.860 And what Colin Kaepernick believes in is that he hates the United States.

00:05:42.680 He hates this country.

00:05:44.720 I want to spell this out.

00:05:46.640 I've been tweeting about this, and the left doesn't seem to understand this.

00:05:50.740 Colin Kaepernick is protesting the United States itself, the country itself.

00:05:56.700 How do I deduce this?

00:05:58.860 Well, Colin Kaepernick is protesting the national anthem, which is the Star Spangled Banner, which

00:06:05.640 is the American flag, which is a symbol of the country itself.

00:06:09.700 The flag represents the country.

00:06:11.200 The Star Spangled Banner represents the country.

00:06:13.920 Now, people will say, well, he doesn't say he's protesting the flag.

00:06:17.700 That's not true, by the way.

00:06:18.580 He does say that he's protesting the flag. 0.51

00:06:20.120 He said, I will not stand up for a flag of a country that oppresses black people or whatever

00:06:25.820 the change du jour is.

00:06:28.600 So he actually does say that he's protesting the flag.

00:06:30.520 But even if he didn't, even if he stands there, he's kneeling, he's not going to stand

00:06:34.960 up for the American flag, and he says, I'm really protesting mint chocolate chip ice cream.

00:06:39.980 No, you don't understand.

00:06:40.900 I'm protesting mint chocolate chip ice cream.

00:06:42.600 You say, no, but no, you're not.

00:06:44.100 You might be saying that.

00:06:45.820 You might think that that's what you're protesting, but you're not.

00:06:47.900 Because what you are protesting in a demonstrable way, in a verifiable way, I can look at the

00:06:53.020 video, you are protesting the Star Spangled Banner, which is the flag, which represents

00:06:58.300 the country.

00:06:59.180 That's what he's doing.

00:07:00.340 And this guy, I don't think we should defend this guy at all, because some of the conservatives

00:07:04.600 get this wrong, too.

00:07:05.400 They'll say, well, I defend his right to protest.

00:07:10.300 Say, sure.

00:07:11.640 Like, sure, I don't know that anybody disagrees with that.

00:07:14.880 They'll say, the flag stands, in part, for the right to protest, and therefore, I support

00:07:21.880 his protest.

00:07:22.900 No, that, yeah, you're actually right.

00:07:25.020 The flag does, in part, stand for the right to protest. 1.00

00:07:27.500 That's why it's so idiotic to protest it, because it's a self-defeating protest. 0.95

00:07:32.100 If that is true, if the flag stands, in part, for the right to protest, then you're protesting 0.99

00:07:36.500 the right to protest.

00:07:38.200 So what are you left with?

00:07:39.440 You're undercutting your own demonstration.

00:07:41.400 As Chesterton said, there's a thought that stops thought.

00:07:45.040 That's the only thought that ought to be stopped.

00:07:46.900 But beyond this, for the people who think that Colin Kaepernick is really just this high-minded

00:07:52.700 racial justice activist who's really seeing something that we're not all seeing, beyond

00:07:59.000 the statistics, he's really seeing a de jure or de facto policy of discrimination against

00:08:06.260 black people by the police department.

00:08:07.540 If that's really what's happening, first of all, why isn't he protesting police departments?

00:08:12.840 Why is he protesting the flag?

00:08:14.120 But also, why does he make all of his other statements?

00:08:16.460 Why does he wear t-shirts of Fidel Castro?

00:08:19.040 Why does he make openly anti-American statements?

00:08:21.780 The left is trying to turn this guy into some civil rights hero.

00:08:25.660 That's not what he is. 1.00

00:08:26.680 He's what the communists would call a useful idiot. 1.00

00:08:28.880 Here's Colin Kaepernick defending Fidel Castro. 1.00

00:08:31.320 So it's good to have an open mind about Fidel Castro and his oppression.

00:08:38.480 I'm not talking about Fidel Castro and his oppression.

00:08:41.540 I'm talking about Malcolm X and what he's done for people.

00:08:45.420 No, I realize that I'm talking about it because it's impossible.

00:08:47.920 One thing that Fidel Castro did do is they have the highest literacy rate because they invest

00:08:53.080 more in their education system than they do in our prison system, which we do not do here,

00:08:58.940 even though we're fully capable of doing that.

00:09:00.880 He also did something that we do not do here.

00:09:03.620 He broke up families.

00:09:05.100 He took over a country without any justice and without any elections.

00:09:12.020 We do break up families here.

00:09:14.000 That's what mass incarceration is.

00:09:15.800 That was the foundation of slavery, so our country has been based on that, as well as 0.94

00:09:21.260 the genocide of Native Americans.

00:09:23.440 Are you equating the breaking up of Cuban families with people going to jail in the United

00:09:29.020 States of America?

00:09:30.880 I'm equating the breaking up of families with breaking up of them.

00:09:36.620 Wow.

00:09:39.420 Amazing.

00:09:40.960 That is amazing. 1.00

00:09:42.120 That is really amazing because this guy's a dolt. 0.99

00:09:45.980 I mean, I'm not saying that he's the main issue here, but he's a dolt who is being used 0.99

00:09:51.060 by seriously bad people and defending seriously bad things like Fidel Castro. 0.95

00:09:54.940 None of what he said is true, by the way.

00:09:57.940 I've been to Cuba.

00:09:59.160 I don't think Colin Kaepernick has been to Cuba.

00:10:00.860 I've been to Cuba.

00:10:01.440 I've talked to the Cuban people.

00:10:03.260 The propaganda that comes out of the Castro slave regime is that they have the greatest 0.98

00:10:08.420 education system.

00:10:09.280 They have the greatest health care system.

00:10:10.660 It isn't true.

00:10:11.280 I was talking to a Cuban.

00:10:13.020 He said, there's the hospital.

00:10:14.800 There's the famous hospital in Havana.

00:10:16.880 I said, oh, so anybody can go in there and it's universal health care?

00:10:19.460 I said, yeah, anybody can go in there.

00:10:21.040 There won't be any medicine.

00:10:22.740 You can't get any surgery done, but you can go in.

00:10:25.340 Yeah, everybody can go in.

00:10:26.800 And when you do go in, you've got to bring your own toilet paper.

00:10:28.720 You've got to bring your own tools.

00:10:30.380 You've got to bring your own instruments.

00:10:32.380 And really what happens is people just purchase health care on the black market there.

00:10:37.260 It's slavery. 0.97

00:10:38.260 He says, the Castros don't break up families.

00:10:40.620 They're not.

00:10:41.080 We, by imprisoning our criminals, we're a slave country.

00:10:44.360 Fidel Castro imprisoned a whole nation, a whole country for decade upon decade.

00:10:48.240 This is the kind of stuff Colin Kaepernick stands up for.

00:10:50.200 This has nothing to do with police brutality in the United States. 1.00

00:10:53.480 This has everything to do with his actually communist idiocy. 0.99

00:10:58.500 Is actual defense demonstrable, verifiable? 1.00

00:11:02.560 There it is.

00:11:03.200 I'm not creating something out of thin air.

00:11:05.480 Defending communist thugs.

00:11:07.360 This is an anti-American ideology and it's an anti-American ideology that fuels that protest.

00:11:12.380 Before we get any further, because I've got to check the time so that we don't run out of time today.

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00:12:32.740 So that's Colin Kaepernick.

00:12:35.260 The issue here, though, isn't just Colin Kaepernick.

00:12:37.300 Because some guy, you know, some guy who is at the end of his football career and now has to become a shoe salesman.

00:12:44.900 That's the real life story of Al Bundy, as many people on the internet were pointing out.

00:12:48.720 But this is also terrible business.

00:12:50.200 So I woke up this morning.

00:12:51.300 This was trending all day yesterday.

00:12:52.880 Nike.

00:12:53.620 Hashtag just do it.

00:12:54.540 Hashtag boycott Nike.

00:12:55.740 Said this isn't good.

00:12:56.820 I've noticed that when the left takes over businesses, those businesses go down.

00:13:03.220 Their profit margins shrink and they start to lose money.

00:13:05.300 This is exactly what happened.

00:13:06.280 By the time I woke up this morning, Nike was down $4 billion in market capitalization.

00:13:12.240 This is all because of Colin Kaepernick.

00:13:14.380 And it's been fluctuating all day.

00:13:15.580 Between $3 and $4 billion, they're down.

00:13:18.080 This is not just a regular fluctuation in their trading.

00:13:20.560 This is a direct response to Kaepernick.

00:13:22.340 And it is a significant drop of 3% in the value of their company.

00:13:28.760 This is true across businesses.

00:13:31.240 I really don't understand why the left keeps doubling down on this, or rather why businesses keep doubling down on the left.

00:13:38.420 It is costing the money left and right.

00:13:40.580 And this tells us something about our politics.

00:13:42.400 You're going to hear Democrats and critics of the administration harping on the generic ballot.

00:13:46.980 The numbers that we're seeing coming out of Nike, the numbers that we're seeing coming out of other businesses who embrace the left are telling us a lot more than the generic opinion polls from political analysts are telling us a lot more.

00:14:04.780 And we can see it with this Ryan Gosling movie, The First Man, directed by Damien Chazil.

00:14:11.800 Is that how you pronounce his name?

00:14:13.060 Damien Chazil?

00:14:13.820 I don't know.

00:14:14.340 He's the guy who did La La Land.

00:14:15.560 And now they've done this movie called The First Man, which is about the moon landing.

00:14:20.700 And in the moment where Neil Armstrong touches down, they cut out the planting of the American flag in the moon.

00:14:28.240 Ryan Gosling gave his explanation of this.

00:14:29.920 He said, quote, I think this was widely regarded in the end as a human achievement, and that's how we chose to view it.

00:14:37.100 I also think Neil was extremely humble, as were many of these astronauts.

00:14:41.040 And time and time again, he deferred the focus from himself to the 400,000 people who made the mission possible.

00:14:47.940 So Ryan Gosling here speaking for Neil Armstrong, who most certainly would have called himself an American and was a proud American.

00:14:54.260 Buzz Aldrin is ripping this movie for not showing the American flag, ripping this political talking point. 0.99

00:15:02.860 But I think I've actually figured out why Ryan Gosling is spouting this sort of stupidity. 0.99

00:15:09.500 This was in a little-watched aspect of a Jimmy Kimmel interview. 0.99

00:15:12.740 That's why nobody watched it, obviously, because it was part of a Jimmy Kimmel interview.

00:15:15.640 But here, Ryan Gosling explains the only plausible explanation for his defense of not including the flag.

00:15:21.340 But it's this thing that kind of sends you, like, you know, ass over tea kettle for, like, you know, like, they would only do it for maybe 20 minutes at a time or something.

00:15:31.760 But in the movie, because we had to get a lot of shots, I was in it for, like, six to eight hours.

00:15:35.840 For real? Were they going?

00:15:37.740 Yeah, so I started to sort of smell a rat up here, you know.

00:15:42.820 What do you mean?

00:15:43.420 Well, like, that I was, something was wrong, like, I was, I was that and getting banged around in the capsules and hitting my head that something might be wrong.

00:15:52.540 What was wrong?

00:15:54.960 Well, I knew something was wrong when I called, I went home one night and I called Ava and I was, I was just hell-bent on this idea that there were people in donut stores all around the world, you know, trying to charm their way into getting free donuts.

00:16:09.680 And what did, what did Ava say to that?

00:16:15.040 She was, she was so patient and listening and, you know, and then she was saying, well, you know, I think you might have, you know, drain damage.

00:16:23.260 And I was like, no, no, there's, there's donut charmers everywhere and it's, and it's a problem and no one's doing anything about it.

00:16:31.520 This really happened?

00:16:32.500 Yeah, and she was like, I've been saying you have drain damage as a joke, but I think you might have brain damage.

00:16:38.880 You know, you should go to the hospital.

00:16:40.740 Did you go to the hospital?

00:16:41.900 Yes.

00:16:42.260 You did?

00:16:42.780 Yeah.

00:16:43.260 And what'd they say?

00:16:45.200 That I had a minor concussion.

00:16:48.400 That explains it.

00:16:50.240 That's the only way to explain this defense.

00:16:52.240 And all of that is to say, I don't really care what actors think, generally speaking.

00:16:57.780 It doesn't really matter to me that if Ryan Gosling thinks that this wasn't an American achievement, who cares?

00:17:05.060 What matters is that the movie lies about history.

00:17:08.460 It revises history and it says, this wasn't an American achievement.

00:17:11.620 This is a human achievement.

00:17:13.640 And Jeremy Boring, the God King and, you know, the sports correspondent from our sister network, Daily Wire 2, he wrote a great piece about this over the weekend where he explained that sure, it's a human achievement.

00:17:23.620 America is the human achievement.

00:17:24.840 All of the great achievements of the last 200 years have come from the United States.

00:17:29.740 They've come from the United States because the United States itself is a magnificent human achievement.

00:17:35.240 An achievement of freedom, of the body politic, of the way that free markets and free ideas and free thought and the Anglo-American inheritance of free politics has allowed unbelievable developments in science, even art, even the art that Ryan Gosling is allowed to take part in.

00:17:52.940 That's certainly true.

00:17:55.300 It's a human achievement, but it's a human achievement done by particular humans in a particular time by a particular country, and that's America.

00:18:02.160 They want to wash over that.

00:18:03.380 But when you abstract beyond what actually happened, when you try to create this generic abstraction, you lose all of the things that actually happened.

00:18:12.300 And the issue here is the audience.

00:18:15.400 Because actors, I say this, I've acted before, you know, in indie movies and plays and things like that.

00:18:22.700 I say this in all humility.

00:18:25.360 Actors are often not the brightest people in the world. 0.89

00:18:28.480 My old acting teacher, one of the great acting teachers, he's been around for 70 years probably at this point teaching. 0.99

00:18:34.420 He would say that actors have to become gullible fools. 1.00

00:18:37.340 You have to become a gullible fool. 1.00

00:18:38.680 That's not a knock on actors. 0.99

00:18:40.120 It's because you need to be so receptive to imaginary circumstances and live truthfully in imaginary circumstances.

00:18:46.860 So we don't expect our actors to be able to, you know, lecture on aspects of history or philosophy or whatever. 0.98

00:18:54.140 The classic image you have is of the sort of dumb actor. 0.87

00:18:57.320 There are plenty of smart actors, by the way. 0.96

00:18:59.000 Like, I know a lot of them out here, I won't name them, other than James Woods is so out there on Twitter.

00:19:05.440 He's very smart.

00:19:06.580 I mean, he went to MIT, I think.

00:19:07.960 I won't name the other smart actors I know because they'll probably lose their careers by virtue of having any association with me.

00:19:13.480 But James Woods has already lost his agent, so that's fine.

00:19:18.000 But the trouble here is the audience.

00:19:19.920 Because about half the country is going to eat this up.

00:19:21.940 About half the country believes what Ryan Gosling is saying right now.

00:19:25.580 And look, fortunately, probably half the country doesn't believe that.

00:19:28.400 Which is why I can't imagine this movie is going to do very well.

00:19:31.440 It's certainly not going to hit its expectations.

00:19:33.440 There are going to be a lot of people so turned off by this that Go Woke, Go Broke is almost certainly going to affect them as well.

00:19:39.960 But even then, what if their thought is, because one of the explanations for this is that they want to be able to sell it overseas.

00:19:46.420 They don't want to offend the foreign markets by making this about planting an American flag.

00:19:50.400 And so they're not going to put it in there.

00:19:51.960 That is a good argument for nationalism.

00:19:53.820 If we are so dislodged from our bonds of loyalty to our own country, this wonderful country of ours, the greatest country in the history of the world, the most prosperous, the most generous, the most charitable country in the history of the world.

00:20:07.340 If we're so divorced from our bonds of loyalty to that country because we want to make a buck in China, that is a good argument for nationalism. 0.97

00:20:15.480 That's actually an argument against unfettered free trade.

00:20:18.460 There is something really that's lost by this.

00:20:22.420 We're going to be talking to the political philosopher Yoram Hazoni, I believe, next week about his new book, The Virtues of Nationalism.

00:20:30.440 But this is a good argument for that.

00:20:32.600 We saw this in 2006 with that Superman movie when they replaced Truth, Justice, and the American Way with Truth, Justice, and all that other stuff.

00:20:41.740 That's so horribly offensive.

00:20:43.540 But it's going to affect this movie.

00:20:46.640 Mark my words.

00:20:47.540 Get woke, go broke.

00:20:48.900 This has happened for every company that's touched it.

00:20:52.360 Facebook and Twitter, for the first time ever this year, Facebook saw a decline in its daily usership.

00:20:58.080 For the first time, Twitter saw a massive decline in its monthly usership.

00:21:01.700 Why is that?

00:21:02.660 All of those numbers coincided with the mass censorship and denigration of conservatives, suppression of conservative ideas on those platforms.

00:21:11.760 When you start picking a side, when you start alienating half of the country, you're going to lose money.

00:21:17.740 That's no coincidence.

00:21:18.860 Same thing happened with the NFL.

00:21:20.320 Happened with a lot of other people.

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00:23:07.960 Other places that have learned to get woke, go broke are the NFL.

00:23:11.900 The NFL's ratings were down 8% in 2016.

00:23:14.920 In 2017, they were down an additional 10%.

00:23:17.440 I wonder why, gee, I wonder why this corresponds exactly to the timing of the Colin Kaepernick protest.

00:23:24.520 And Nike apparently saw that and they said, wow, the NFL has managed to turn off virtually all of their audience by promoting this guy.

00:23:31.180 We should get him to be our spokesman.

00:23:32.900 Oh, that's a great, we're making too much money.

00:23:34.620 We've got to start hemorrhaging money.

00:23:35.920 How about the Oscars?

00:23:36.960 When the Oscars became this political left-wing gab fest, last year the Oscars ratings were down 19%.

00:23:43.340 They were down 19% over the previous year, which was a nine-year low.

00:23:47.440 How about CNN's ratings?

00:23:48.700 Is anybody watching CNN?

00:23:50.180 No.

00:23:50.760 CNN is down 25% now year over year in prime time.

00:23:54.040 And you've got to remember, they're on in every airport in the world.

00:23:57.580 If you took out the airports, I think they would have negative ratings.

00:24:00.500 I don't know how that works technically, but I think there would be fewer than zero people watching them.

00:24:06.020 This even affects Marvel comic books.

00:24:08.620 DC finally overtook Marvel comic books in sales.

00:24:11.780 This was largely attributed by analysts to Marvel taking a turn for the social justice warriors.

00:24:18.180 This is a really bad idea, and it has a lot to do with our politics as well.

00:24:23.120 We can learn a lot.

00:24:24.200 These lefties are going to be telling you, look at the polls.

00:24:26.900 It's awful for Republicans.

00:24:28.660 Don't stay home.

00:24:29.400 Stay home, Republicans.

00:24:30.480 You're going to lose.

00:24:31.280 Trump's bad.

00:24:32.320 It's blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:24:33.400 Look at the real polls, which are all of those numbers, because those polls are very reactive.

00:24:37.640 They're very reactive to markets and to real people.

00:24:40.520 It's still socially unacceptable in many quarters to say that you support Donald Trump.

00:24:45.180 It's unacceptable in many workplaces, certainly on the campuses, in a lot of aspects of our society.

00:24:52.340 So people are just not going to say it.

00:24:54.280 But I'm telling you, this guy has not lost votes.

00:24:56.600 He's only gained votes.

00:24:58.240 And you're seeing this reflected in markets, and you're seeing it in our politics.

00:25:01.480 So today, we had an early hearing for Brett Kavanaugh to be confirmed to the Supreme Court.

00:25:06.840 Look at how the Democrats behaved themselves.

00:25:09.420 Here's Chuck Grassley, the Republican, trying to hold these confirmation hearings.

00:25:13.720 Good morning.

00:25:15.360 I welcome everyone to this confirmation hearing on the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

00:25:23.020 Mr. Chairman.

00:25:23.900 To serve as Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States.

00:25:25.840 Mr. Chairman, I'd like to be recognized for a question before we proceed.

00:25:29.540 Regular order, Chairman.

00:25:30.880 Mr. Chairman, I'd like to be recognized to ask a question before we proceed.

00:25:35.020 The committee received just last night, less than 15 hours ago, 42,000 pages of documents that we have not had an opportunity to review or read or analyze.

00:25:47.440 You're out of order.

00:25:49.100 I'll proceed.

00:25:49.880 We cannot possibly move forward, Mr. Chairman.

00:25:52.340 I extend a very warm welcome to Judge Kavanaugh.

00:25:54.020 We have not been given an opportunity to have a meaningful hearing on this nominee.

00:25:58.720 There are two daughters.

00:26:01.060 Mr. Chairman, I agree with my colleague, Senator Harris.

00:26:04.700 Mr. Chairman, we received 42,000 documents that we haven't been able to review last night.

00:26:11.440 And we believe this hearing should be postponed.

00:26:12.740 I know this is an exciting day for all of you here.

00:26:16.540 Mr. Chairman.

00:26:17.300 And you're rightly proud of the judge.

00:26:18.720 Mr. Chairman, if we cannot be recognized, I move to adjourn.

00:26:21.600 The American people get to hear directly from Judge Kavanaugh and later this afternoon.

00:26:28.980 Mr. Chairman, I move to adjourn.

00:26:35.100 Mr. Chairman.

00:26:37.080 Petulant little children. 0.93

00:26:38.440 Chuck Grassley handled himself so well here by not even acknowledging their childish outbursts, their neuralgic little outbursts here. 0.95

00:26:48.060 Mr. Chairman, it says a lot about this party.

00:26:51.700 They have no political recourse to this nomination because the American people voted them out resoundingly.

00:26:57.120 In large part because of these Supreme Court seats.

00:27:00.680 They have nothing to offer.

00:27:02.700 They have no points to say.

00:27:03.980 And so they're going to interrupt.

00:27:05.020 They have no respect for rules.

00:27:06.500 They have no respect for decorum.

00:27:08.180 And they're just going to say, but I don't like it.

00:27:11.020 I'm going to, don't you.

00:27:12.920 You say, listen, you have to conduct yourself like an adult.

00:27:15.880 If you're not going to conduct yourself like an adult, you're going to be ignored.

00:27:19.060 All of them.

00:27:19.480 Mr. Chairman, I move to adjourn.

00:27:20.760 Well, all right.

00:27:21.640 You can move.

00:27:22.280 Go move whatever you want.

00:27:23.820 Go move right on out of this place, man.

00:27:25.760 Because we're going to confirm Brett Kavanaugh.

00:27:28.300 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

00:27:29.360 They've got nothing.

00:27:30.980 And this is what they're going to run on.

00:27:32.460 I mean, the reason they did this today is because they want to get good footage for their TV commercials when they're in their own elections.

00:27:38.960 And Kamala Harris, who started all of that off, wants to get good footage for her presidential commercials. 1.00

00:27:45.940 This is not going to play well.

00:27:48.080 This doesn't look good.

00:27:49.560 People don't really like this.

00:27:51.460 They don't.

00:27:52.000 It's sort of like the psychology of lines.

00:27:54.280 You know, people don't mind how long a line is until people start breaking the rules and then everybody gets very anxious.

00:28:00.060 It's the same thing with politics.

00:28:01.660 People don't mind when they're out of power.

00:28:03.220 As long as everyone's playing by the rules because they know there's a way for them to get back in power.

00:28:08.060 But when they start breaking the rules like this, when they start trying to undercut the rules, shouting over people, having no sense of decorum, it's chaos.

00:28:15.100 People hate that.

00:28:16.220 People on the left and the right will hate that.

00:28:18.940 Voters will not like that.

00:28:20.360 So good.

00:28:20.740 I hope you air this all over television.

00:28:22.440 I hope you got your clips today, guys, because it really doesn't look good.

00:28:26.260 Speaking of being petulant little children, Steve Bannon was invited to headline the New Yorker conference.

00:28:31.800 You know that magazine that nobody's read for 30 years, the one with the cartoons that nobody understands, the cartoons that are just dry to the point of not being a joke.

00:28:41.860 So he was invited to headline this conference.

00:28:45.340 And then there was this massive pushback by Judd Apatow and Patton Oswalt, you know, the great minds of our generation, Judd Apatow and Patton Oswalt.

00:28:54.000 They both said, we're going to pull out of this if Steve Bannon is invited to come.

00:28:58.680 And, you know, I'm going to pull out of it, too.

00:28:59.800 I wasn't invited, but I'm going to pull out of it, too.

00:29:01.400 And they're going to pull out like petulant children.

00:29:03.680 I think when finally the editor of The New Yorker said, OK, we're going to disinvite him now, OK?

00:29:09.220 And then they all said, oh, good.

00:29:10.380 And they said, I'm so relieved.

00:29:11.580 I'm so relieved.

00:29:12.480 And of course they're relieved.

00:29:13.720 Heaven forfend you hear a political opinion that you disagree with.

00:29:18.720 Heaven forfend.

00:29:20.760 Because what they're saying about Steve Bannon is that he's a Nazi.

00:29:24.620 And I don't know Steve Bannon.

00:29:26.060 I've never met Steve Bannon.

00:29:27.500 Some of my friends really don't like Steve Bannon.

00:29:29.600 I'm more than willing to take their word for it on his interpersonal relationships.

00:29:34.840 The guy's not a Nazi.

00:29:35.840 There's no evidence that he's a Nazi.

00:29:37.400 There's no evidence of that.

00:29:38.660 But they just throw that around.

00:29:39.920 And they call Steve Bannon a Nazi.

00:29:41.120 And they call everybody else a Nazi. 0.61

00:29:42.220 They call Ben a Nazi. 0.98

00:29:43.420 They call him an Orthodox Jewish Nazi. 0.60

00:29:45.420 They bandy this about.

00:29:46.940 Look, Steve Bannon.

00:29:48.740 There are many criticisms that one can make of Steve Bannon.

00:29:51.380 Like, for instance, how he lost a Republican seat in Alabama.

00:29:54.260 How do you do that?

00:29:55.460 But this guy is very important.

00:29:57.680 He was very important in the 2016 election.

00:29:59.740 He was a chief advisor to the president.

00:30:02.060 This guy could shed a lot of light on this moment in politics.

00:30:05.760 He is a perfect guest to headline a conference that's about ideas.

00:30:09.660 But they don't care about ideas.

00:30:11.020 They want to shut out any idea that they disagree with.

00:30:15.300 They would be horrified.

00:30:16.540 They'll start shaking and crying if they hear an idea that they disagree with.

00:30:19.200 Malcolm Gladwell, the guy who wrote those books like Blink, Outliers, he wrote these very popular books.

00:30:26.660 He tweeted about this.

00:30:27.720 He said, quote,

00:30:28.460 Huh, call me old-fashioned, but I would have thought that the point of a festival of ideas was to expose the audience to ideas.

00:30:34.620 If you only invite your friends over, it's called a dinner party.

00:30:37.880 This is a very good point.

00:30:40.040 And they're all, everyone is coming and they're now piling on Malcolm Gladwell.

00:30:44.700 This is a good point.

00:30:45.480 It's okay.

00:30:46.060 Hey, ideas that you disagree with won't hurt you.

00:30:49.280 By the way, even they say, well, it's racism and that's different.

00:30:52.440 It's actually not really different.

00:30:54.500 You should read ideas that are that bad.

00:30:57.100 You should read ideas that you really, really disagree with, that you really, really, really disagree with.

00:31:02.020 It's important to do that.

00:31:03.160 The only reason that you wouldn't expose yourself to those ideas is because you're not confident in your own ideas.

00:31:08.120 Because you're afraid that you'll become a Nazi if you read a book by a Nazi.

00:31:12.280 No.

00:31:12.560 Well, if you're confident in your own ideas, then you'll see why the Nazi was wrong and it will shed light on how the Nazi thinks. 0.67

00:31:19.080 But they don't care about any of that.

00:31:20.200 Chelsea Clinton tweeted at you, she said, quote,

00:31:21.480 For anyone who wonders what normalization of bigotry looks like, please look no further than Steve Bannon being invited by the Economist and the New Yorker to their respective events in New York a few weeks apart.

00:31:32.600 Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill Clinton, who recently sat on stage on a dais at Aretha Franklin's funeral with Louis Farrakhan, who regularly talks about how we've got to get rid of all those satanic Jews, who regularly invades against the Jews, the head of the nation of Islam.

00:31:49.540 What about that bigotry? She didn't tweet about that when her father was doing that, did she?

00:31:53.100 Talk about hate. They talk about hate, hate, hate.

00:31:55.760 The Democrats are always projecting, and so they're always projecting their own feelings onto someone else.

00:32:01.340 They're saying, Bannon is hateful. He's hateful, and that's why we've got to get him out, and he can't speak anywhere.

00:32:05.320 Who's the hateful one here? Who's the hateful one?

00:32:08.340 Seems like, isn't there a little irony here? 0.57

00:32:10.400 Seems like you might be the hateful one here. 0.73

00:32:12.820 But it's that politics that is so, so despicable. It's so disgusting. People don't like it. 1.00

00:32:19.160 There are a lot of people who legitimately are liberals, who were on the left, who voted for a lot of Democrats, who won't vote for it now, who won't vote for Democrats now, because they don't like that.

00:32:28.960 We don't like this chaos. We like a little bit of order. We like a little bit of reason.

00:32:33.200 We like facts, and facts don't care about your feelings.

00:32:35.860 I mean, this is true of liberals, too, and those are the polls that matter.

00:32:40.580 I mean, these are the things that matter in this election.

00:32:43.260 We're told Trump is never, ever going to win. He can't win. Republicans are going to get totally blown out.

00:32:47.240 They're going to lose the Senate.

00:32:49.700 Look at the polls that matter, though. Look at what the left is doing. 0.59

00:32:53.280 What votes have the Republicans lost?

00:32:56.700 What votes did they have in 2016 that they've lost in 2018?

00:33:00.300 I don't see a whole lot, and the news keeps getting better.

00:33:03.340 We've got to go pretty soon, but the news just keeps getting better.

00:33:05.700 Right now, another news report out today, manufacturing index is at a 14-year high.

00:33:11.780 It's at a 14-year high.

00:33:12.980 We've got illegal aliens are getting off of welfare in huge numbers. 0.99

00:33:17.600 It's down 20% in certain states, 600,000 people off of the dole because of President Trump actually enforcing immigration law.

00:33:24.480 Things are going very well, and the economy is going very well.

00:33:26.740 Consumer confidence at an all-time high, and manufacturing at this 14-year high.

00:33:32.020 This is really good stuff, 14, 18-year highs, really good stuff, and it's what really makes me not believe the polls,

00:33:39.360 and it's what really makes me not believe the new book by Bob Woodward.

00:33:42.940 There's a new book out by Bob Woodward, which is saying that all of Trump's staff says he's crazy, 1.00

00:33:46.800 and he's an idiot, and he's a lunatic, and he doesn't know what he's doing, and it's just chaos at the White House. 1.00

00:33:51.840 Okay, I kind of like Bob Woodward. He's a good journalist. 1.00

00:33:54.940 But what am I going to believe? Am I going to believe what I see happening in the country and the world around me,

00:34:01.420 or am I going to read the gossip from ex-staffers that talked to Bob Woodward?

00:34:06.040 What am I going to believe? Because all I know is that manufacturing is at a 14-year high.

00:34:11.540 Consumer confidence, 18-year high. Unemployment is at, in some sectors, all-time lows.

00:34:18.680 Stock markets at all-time highs.

00:34:20.400 What am I supposed to conclude from that?

00:34:23.140 If chaos is what leads to that, bring on the chaos.

00:34:26.140 If crazy tweets is what leads to that, bring on the crazy tweets.

00:34:29.480 Bring it on, man, because we all love the gossip, and Ivanka said this, and John Kelly said this, and he said this.

00:34:37.580 Okay, who cares?

00:34:39.500 I don't care about any of that.

00:34:40.740 I care about what's happening in the country and the world, and what's happening is very good stuff.

00:34:44.420 And that's what the American people care about.

00:34:46.120 That's why poll after poll show, they don't care about the Russia investigation.

00:34:48.440 They don't care about Bob Mueller.

00:34:50.300 They care about what's happening in their country, economically, politically, and culturally.

00:34:55.220 But they care about what's happening in their country that they can see.

00:34:57.920 And what we're seeing is good stuff.

00:34:59.960 So we've got to get to what this means for the elections.

00:35:01.980 We've got two decrepit old Democrats who are declaring, or all but declaring, that they're going to run for office.

00:35:07.440 Before we do that, I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.

00:35:09.560 I'm sorry, I don't want to do it, but I have to.

00:35:11.780 We still have a lot to get to.

00:35:12.980 I want to talk about John McCain's funeral, politicians politicizing the funeral.

00:35:16.600 I also want to explain Sarah Silverman's joke to her, because she doesn't seem to understand it.

00:35:21.180 She tweeted at me that she doesn't seem to understand it.

00:35:23.620 So I'll explain it to her.

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00:35:50.360 We'll be right back.

00:35:50.920 So what does this mean for politics?

00:36:03.400 We see the Left imploding.

00:36:05.220 We see companies that embrace the Left imploding.

00:36:07.880 We see all of the economic and political indicators in the country going up and up and up and up for Republicans.

00:36:14.400 So what does this mean?

00:36:14.940 It means, and I don't want to jinx this by even saying it out loud.

00:36:19.180 It means that in 2020, the Democrat nominee might be, it might be John Kerry.

00:36:27.420 Okay, I'll say it.

00:36:28.760 I hope I didn't just jinx it.

00:36:30.460 For comment, because John Kerry has suggested as much as he might run.

00:36:34.800 For comment, we turn now to former Secretary of State John Kerry.

00:36:39.080 Snooze and dream.

00:36:40.620 Dream and snooze.

00:36:41.740 The pleasures are unlimited.

00:36:43.960 Well, I hope if he's elected president that he'll just snooze and dream and dream and snooze.

00:36:47.660 There he is.

00:36:48.980 John Kerry Howell III.

00:36:51.040 Ah, monkey.

00:36:52.480 Teresa Riri, bring me my Chablis, Riri.

00:36:55.740 John Kerry might actually run for president.

00:36:58.160 He was asked about this in an interview.

00:37:00.600 And he said, well, well, well, monkey.

00:37:02.840 I'm not thinking about 2020 right now.

00:37:05.580 I'm just thinking about electing people in 2018.

00:37:08.320 Which is what people say when they're running in 2020.

00:37:11.040 It does seem that he's very interested in it.

00:37:12.560 He's said before that he got close enough that he should run again.

00:37:17.580 He didn't get close enough, by the way.

00:37:19.380 George W. Bush decisively won his election against John Kerry.

00:37:22.780 But that is neither here nor there.

00:37:24.600 If only he runs.

00:37:25.500 President Trump says the same thing.

00:37:26.720 He tweeted out, oh, I should only be so lucky to run against John Kerry.

00:37:30.960 John Kerry is the most out-of-touch candidate.

00:37:35.040 But second only, perhaps, to the other woman who is now certainly going to run for president. 1.00

00:37:40.720 Elizabeth Liawatha Warren.

00:37:43.160 Elizabeth Warren.

00:37:43.860 The way we know that she's running for president now is she's sending out this PR blitz. 1.00

00:37:48.280 In just the last week, you might have seen this.

00:37:50.160 The Boston Globe ran a headline, quote,

00:37:52.680 Ethnicity, not a factor in Elizabeth Warren's rise in law. 0.99

00:37:58.080 First of all, why is that news?

00:38:00.400 And second of all, that isn't true.

00:38:01.760 And we know that it was because she put it on her application.

00:38:05.680 And we know that Native Americans have an advantage in hiring.

00:38:09.800 They have an ethnic advantage in hiring because of affirmative action policies.

00:38:14.020 So that just isn't true.

00:38:14.980 Other stories have been planted, too.

00:38:16.600 It wasn't a factor.

00:38:17.360 It wasn't a factor.

00:38:18.240 But it was a factor. 0.99

00:38:19.580 And this woman is so unlikable. 1.00

00:38:22.480 She's so shrill and unlikable. 0.99

00:38:24.080 But the reason that's going to dog her, 1.00

00:38:26.200 the reason I think that's a fatal blow to her candidacy for president, 1.00

00:38:29.180 is it just shows how utterly inauthentic she is. 0.97

00:38:34.060 It shows what a total fraud she is. 1.00

00:38:36.340 When you look at Liz Warren, 0.98

00:38:37.620 she is the whitest woman to ever walk the face of the earth. 1.00

00:38:40.880 She is whiter than Thurston Howell III, John Kerry.

00:38:44.520 I mean, she is so...

00:38:45.540 And she cynically played on affirmative action. 0.97

00:38:49.280 And she's cynically playing on policies that she supports. 0.99

00:38:52.480 So there's even the fraud and the inauthenticity of the support for those policies

00:38:57.020 because she gamed the system to get an advantage the minute she could.

00:39:01.180 You know, it's all words, words, words, talk, talk, talk with her.

00:39:03.940 And it's so divorced from reality.

00:39:06.380 So, I mean, if those are the two candidates, I hope so.

00:39:08.620 If we get Kamala Harris, great. 0.75

00:39:10.640 You know, just shouting down like a deranged maniac,

00:39:14.260 shouting down Chuck Grassley in what's supposed to be an orderly Senate hearing.

00:39:18.280 I hope so.

00:39:19.140 Cory Booker can't control any of his emotions.

00:39:21.140 Cory Booker, tears of rage, totally off the deep end.

00:39:26.120 This is why you'll hear the left and the anti-Trump right, they'll say,

00:39:30.160 but the generic ballot, we're really down on the generic ballot.

00:39:33.440 There is no generic candidate.

00:39:35.260 There's no generic race for president.

00:39:37.360 The closest we came was Mitt Romney. 0.98

00:39:38.880 And they even managed to turn him into some monstrous, vicious, dog-abusing, 1.00

00:39:44.160 gay boy, hair-cutting criminal, I don't know. 0.99

00:39:47.260 There is no generic candidate. 0.99

00:39:49.640 It's only people.

00:39:50.240 You only run against people.

00:39:51.560 Sometimes the anti-Trump right will say, well, Trump didn't win the election.

00:39:55.040 Hillary lost the election.

00:39:57.400 Sure.

00:39:58.340 Hillary lost and therefore Trump won.

00:40:00.800 And Trump won and therefore Hillary lost. 0.99

00:40:02.560 You run against real people.

00:40:04.180 Presidential elections are not abstractions.

00:40:06.560 They're not a theory.

00:40:07.820 They happen in real time with real people.

00:40:09.280 So the question is, right now, and look, the 2020 nominee for the Democrats could be someone

00:40:15.240 that we haven't heard from yet.

00:40:16.800 Probably will be someone we haven't heard from yet.

00:40:18.960 But if it's the people we have heard from, who's going to beat Donald Trump?

00:40:22.080 John Kerry?

00:40:24.400 Is John Kerry?

00:40:25.860 Teresa, I really want to beat Donnie.

00:40:28.640 I have to beat him.

00:40:29.800 I'm down in the polls, Riri.

00:40:31.240 Is he really going to beat Donald Trump?

00:40:32.760 How about Joe Biden?

00:40:33.980 This guy, this creepy guy who's on video, undeniably on video, is creeping on all these

00:40:40.180 young girls smelling their hair.

00:40:41.920 Is that guy going to do it?

00:40:42.860 A guy who was run out of the presidential race 30 years ago because he's a plagiarist?

00:40:46.580 Is that guy going to beat him?

00:40:48.660 Joe Biden is the least sincere person in America.

00:40:51.440 He plays an authentic guy on TV, but he isn't one.

00:40:54.500 Is that guy really going to win a contest of authenticity with Donald Trump?

00:40:57.700 How about Kamala Harris? 1.00

00:40:58.620 Is she going to beat him? 0.55

00:40:59.660 How about Liz Warren, Liawatha, Focahontas?

00:41:01.980 Is she going to beat him? 0.55

00:41:03.000 How about Cory Booker?

00:41:04.740 Weeping tears of rage as Donald Trump gobbles up his leftist tears.

00:41:09.540 Who's going to beat him?

00:41:11.500 Where is he down?

00:41:12.120 These are all particular races.

00:41:13.840 Nothing is generic.

00:41:15.100 If we were in generic times, we wouldn't have Donald Trump as the president.

00:41:18.920 We're in real particular times.

00:41:20.400 I've got to go pretty soon, so I do want to say a few words about John McCain's funeral

00:41:23.560 because that was wall-to-wall coverage for the last few days.

00:41:28.280 The issue with this funeral, I'll give some personal thoughts on this.

00:41:34.240 The issue is in 20 years, everyone's going to feel foolish about this funeral.

00:41:40.480 That's the really sad part.

00:41:41.760 Because John McCain made great sacrifices, he served his country, and his funeral was

00:41:47.600 made small by politicians.

00:41:49.260 Here's Barack Obama using John McCain's funeral to swipe at Trump.

00:41:53.980 John believed in honest argument and hearing other views.

00:41:58.520 He understood that if we get in the habit of bending the truth to suit political expediency or party

00:42:07.060 orthodoxy, our democracy will not work.

00:42:12.160 That's why he was willing to buck his own party at times.

00:42:16.220 Occasionally work across the aisle on campaign finance reform and immigration reform.

00:42:21.260 That's why he championed a free and independent press as vital to our democratic debate.

00:42:31.920 And the fact that it earned him some good coverage didn't hurt either.

00:42:35.760 You see, look at what he's focusing on.

00:42:38.600 Immigration reform.

00:42:40.020 The press.

00:42:41.080 See, that's why McCain is good.

00:42:42.640 Because he didn't want to enforce immigration law, and he wanted to change immigration law

00:42:46.760 to allow more people to come in and to give amnesty to illegal aliens here.

00:42:50.960 And because he really liked the press.

00:42:53.900 Notice that.

00:42:54.520 He's using all of these as swipes at Donald Trump.

00:42:57.240 The reason John McCain was good to Barack Obama is because he would go against his own party.

00:43:01.640 You know, the Republican Party.

00:43:02.920 That wicked party that's in office right now.

00:43:04.740 And he actually kind of shows his hand, which is that it got him good headlines.

00:43:11.460 That is true.

00:43:12.000 It did get him good headlines.

00:43:13.020 By the press, which is the communications wing of the Democrat Party.

00:43:17.360 Barack Obama goes on.

00:43:20.540 John understood, as JFK understood, as Ronald Reagan understood,

00:43:27.060 that part of what makes our country great is that our membership is based not on our bloodline.

00:43:35.940 Not on what we look like, what our last names are.

00:43:40.140 It's not based on where our parents or grandparents came from,

00:43:44.860 or how recently they arrived.

00:43:48.460 But on adherence to a common creed.

00:43:51.880 Or how recently they arrived.

00:43:54.220 Hmm.

00:43:55.640 Hmm.

00:43:56.160 Hmm.

00:43:56.560 Looking at you, Donald.

00:43:57.760 Hmm.

00:43:58.480 It's so shallow.

00:43:59.700 And now, I want to play Meghan McCain's clip because it is being played all over the world.

00:44:05.800 This was the defining moment of the funeral.

00:44:08.520 I don't, I give Meghan McCain a pass because her father died.

00:44:12.300 So I'll preface it with that.

00:44:13.760 But I do want to talk about what she said because people can learn some lessons from it.

00:44:17.860 Here's Meghan McCain. 0.62

00:44:19.200 We gather here to mourn the passing of American greatness.

00:44:23.060 The real thing.

00:44:24.320 Not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly.

00:44:30.540 Nor the opportunistic appropriation of those who lived lives of comfort and privilege while he suffered and served.

00:44:37.360 But the America of John McCain is generous and welcoming and bold.

00:44:42.220 She is resourceful and confident and secure.

00:44:46.120 She meets her responsibilities.

00:44:48.820 She speaks quietly because she is strong.

00:44:52.020 America does not boast because she has no need to. 1.00

00:44:54.280 The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great.

00:45:00.940 There is the line.

00:45:09.120 There is the line.

00:45:09.760 This whole final invading against Donald Trump.

00:45:14.920 The reason this was a bad idea, and again, I give Meghan a pass because her father died.

00:45:22.040 But I speak a little bit from experience.

00:45:24.460 Having eulogized a parent myself, the feelings in that moment are so intense.

00:45:31.040 The apparent crisis, the urgency, the shock.

00:45:34.000 The shock, even, you know, and obviously people knew that John McCain was going to die.

00:45:39.880 But when it actually happens, the shock is so intense that it distorts your perspective.

00:45:45.020 And it distorts your perspective of the significance of the moment and the importance of outside circumstances to the moment and all of those things.

00:45:53.740 And you really have to be careful because you don't want to let the craziness of the moment, the shock, the hurt, the pain of the moment, cause you to say things that are a little off tone.

00:46:10.700 Because John McCain's life is bigger than one presidency.

00:46:13.480 I hope it's bigger than one presidency.

00:46:15.360 I hope John McCain's life doesn't just boil down to a guy who was elected president in 2016.

00:46:20.740 I think it has more to it than that.

00:46:22.200 But by politicizing this funeral, it shrinks the life of John McCain.

00:46:28.080 And it politicizes it into a moment that won't really matter.

00:46:31.000 Because the fact is we were told time and again that if Donald Trump were elected, the sky would fall.

00:46:35.600 And it didn't fall.

00:46:36.240 He's been a good president.

00:46:37.420 The country has thrived under his leadership.

00:46:39.980 Will it be a historic presidency?

00:46:42.200 Perhaps it will.

00:46:43.080 Or perhaps it won't be.

00:46:44.220 Perhaps there will be a bigger presidency that comes afterward.

00:46:46.200 And the circumstances of the daily politics are not going to matter when we think about the life of John McCain.

00:46:53.360 But when we look back at the funeral of John McCain, it's going to be all about Trump.

00:46:56.980 And that's a very strange thing.

00:46:58.520 I say this with great compassion for Meghan McCain.

00:47:01.140 I know what it feels like.

00:47:02.220 But I think we can all take something from that, which is that this guy's life, John McCain's life, is bigger than the president, than the current president.

00:47:12.580 It's bigger than that.

00:47:13.460 It should be bigger than that.

00:47:14.560 And we should remember him for things that don't have to do with daily politics.

00:47:19.460 Before we go, I just have to make fun of Sarah Silverman.

00:47:21.940 Sarah Silverman, I've been tweeting with her all morning because she doesn't understand her own joke. 0.85

00:47:25.960 Here is Sarah Silverman's promo for her show, I Love You, America. 1.00

00:47:29.720 I will send you to hell for eternity if you murder, steal, do guy-on-guy butt sex. 1.00

00:47:41.640 Wait, what? 1.00

00:47:43.120 What?

00:47:44.480 That's true? 1.00

00:47:45.540 You really put people in hell for eternity if they put their penis in an anus? 1.00

00:47:52.220 Mm-hmm. 1.00

00:47:55.960 Are you serious?

00:47:56.640 I cannot believe that you-

00:47:57.860 Sarah, take a chill pill.

00:47:59.320 I'm kidding. 0.99

00:48:00.120 I created gay people. 0.98

00:48:02.120 Oh. 0.97

00:48:03.380 Phew.

00:48:04.300 Ah, you got me. 0.79

00:48:06.300 You're a real son of a gun, God. 0.97

00:48:08.300 Ah, call me Allah. 0.98

00:48:10.680 Okay, Allah.

00:48:12.340 Oh, Allah.

00:48:14.680 Oh, Allah.

00:48:17.260 Well, well, well.

00:48:18.720 Hey, everyone frantically typing emails about how I'm once again disrespecting the Christian God. 1.00

00:48:23.700 Guess what, motherfuckers? 1.00

00:48:25.960 So, I tweeted to Sarah Silverman. 1.00

00:48:31.580 I said, wow, that was really funny.

00:48:33.460 Now do it for Muslims. 0.97

00:48:35.060 Now do that joke for Muslims. 1.00

00:48:36.600 And she responded.

00:48:37.360 Sarah said, ha, you didn't watch the clip because at the end, I'm really talking to Allah.

00:48:42.220 Ha, ha, ha.

00:48:43.200 Ha, ha, ha.

00:48:43.760 I said, right, right.

00:48:44.960 So, I'd like to explain Sarah Silverman's joke to her.

00:48:47.680 There are two parts of this joke.

00:48:49.220 The first part opens up and you're talking to God.

00:48:51.560 You're not talking to Allah.

00:48:52.440 You're talking to God.

00:48:52.960 Hey, God.

00:48:53.520 And you're talking about the moral law.

00:48:57.460 And he says, don't kill, don't steal, and don't commit sodomy.

00:49:00.840 And you say, what?

00:49:01.640 That's crazy.

00:49:02.500 And then he's like, yeah, I was just kidding about that one.

00:49:04.460 Ha, ha, ha.

00:49:04.920 Right.

00:49:05.120 So, that's the first joke.

00:49:06.140 That's a joke about Christianity. 0.99

00:49:07.900 Then it turns at the end and he says, and my name's Allah.

00:49:11.260 And the second part of that joke is a joke that, ostensibly, you are always making a joke about the Muslim God.

00:49:18.680 And therefore, the Christian mother effers who are frantically typing emails should stuff it. 1.00

00:49:23.980 There are two jokes.

00:49:25.020 One is about the moral law to God that you're talking to.

00:49:28.500 And the second part is a joke, the object of which is the Christian people who are offended by your first joke. 0.96

00:49:34.900 And you say, ha, ha, joke's on you, mother effers. 0.98

00:49:36.720 I was really talking about the God of Islam. 0.96

00:49:39.000 But you weren't really talking about the God of Islam.

00:49:40.620 That's the turn of the joke.

00:49:42.240 Okay.

00:49:42.800 So, the object of that joke are Christians, right? 0.98

00:49:46.460 My challenge to Sarah Silverman is now do a joke where the object of ridicule is Muslims. 0.98

00:49:52.460 Do that one. 0.82

00:49:53.620 The guys at Charlie Hebdo did that.

00:49:55.920 Danish cartoonists did that.

00:49:57.920 And they paid with their lives.

00:50:00.200 So, you won't do that, will you?

00:50:01.880 And she actually responded.

00:50:03.240 She admitted this.

00:50:03.860 She said, yes, you're right. 0.97

00:50:05.220 The object of ridicule here is the Christians. 0.98

00:50:07.220 And the reason I'm doing that is because America is a Christian country. 0.91

00:50:09.840 It's mostly Christian.

00:50:10.840 And so, I punch up.

00:50:12.460 I don't punch down. 0.97

00:50:13.720 Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the entire world.

00:50:16.840 This is not, don't take my word for it.

00:50:18.440 The study and study from various centers, including Pew Research and University of Notre Dame, have shown this.

00:50:25.940 It's the most persecuted religious group in the world.

00:50:27.760 They're beheaded in Libya.

00:50:28.980 They are crucified in Syria.

00:50:31.100 They are mutilated in Indonesia.

00:50:32.640 They are the most persecuted religious group in the world. 0.99

00:50:35.060 Most of that persecution, a lot of that persecution, comes at the hands of Muslim terrorists. 1.00

00:50:41.200 So, what does punching up really mean? 0.99

00:50:42.920 What is punching up? 0.97

00:50:43.780 Let's see if she has the guts to do a joke, the object of which is Muslims. 1.00

00:50:47.860 I don't think she will, which is why it's wah, wah, wah, typical boring comedy.

00:50:53.240 Does she know that Michelle Wolfe got canceled, by the way?

00:50:55.860 Someone should tell her before Sarah Silverman gets a rude awakening. 1.00

00:50:59.860 Okay, that's our show for today.

00:51:01.240 We've got a lot more coming up.

00:51:02.960 So, be sure to tune back in tomorrow because, man, that long weekend really messes you up.

00:51:07.420 You've got, there's too much to cover.

00:51:08.720 Plus, we're going to have some good guests coming up, too.

00:51:11.720 So, in the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

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Ep. 211 - Get Woke, Go Broke

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